22/02/2018 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are Chris Hope,

Chief Political Correspondent

of The Telegraph and Jessica Elgot,

Political Correspondent

of the Guardian.

Many of tomorrow's front

pages are already in.

The Telegraph features

news that an army major,

who faced seven investigations over

the death of an Iraqi

teenager 15 years ago,

is apparently set to face

an eighth inquiry.

The FT pictures striking

university lecturers,

who began a series of month-long

walk outs today in a dispute

over potential cuts

to their pension payments.

The Express says "exodus of the EU

migrants" after figures revealed

around 130,000 left the UK in the 12

months to September last year -

the highest level for a decade.

The Mirror leads on a campaign

calling for MPs to vote

to change organ donor laws,

which would see an opt-out system

brought in - it features the picture

of a 10-year-old transplant patient.

The Guardian reports

on the resignation of Unicef's

deputy executive director

Justin Forsyth, following

accusations of inappropriate

behaviour towards female staff

while chief executive

of Save the Children.

The Metro also has that story and it

features Meghan Markle after police

want the hate crime investigation

after a suspicious package appeared.

Lots of different stories on the

front page tonight. No particular

consensus. You were looking to see

what I was at. I am looking at the

magic only I can see.

Clever.

Website with the Guardian. Charity

chief forced to resign over

inappropriate behaviour, this is

Justin Forsyth stepping down from

Unicef, but about all allegations

come old behaviour.

That is it. It's

an interesting statement, it didn't

go along be played book we have seen

as the story about various

allegations of harassment or

inappropriate behaviours has been

ruling for quite a few days now.

Justin Forsythe left Save the

Children in the week of allegations

made about him and he has a new job

at Unicef. In his statement, you mix

it clear he doesn't believe he needs

to step down for those old

allegations made against him at Save

the Children. He says is no doubt in

my mind that some of the allegations

are an attempt to do damage for the

case for a. -- for aid. The reason

he is leaving is not to continue to

damage it. Controversial.

Seriously?

Is believable he is saying these

things. Don't forget these

allegations only became apparent

this week when three women spoke to

the BBC's PM programme about

allegations about his behaviour in

2011, 20 15. That then emerged and

then yesterday Tory politicians and

a piece I wrote for the Telegraph

yesterday. People like Paul Eunan

O'Kane to have a go at Save the

Children or the aid budget or

Unicef, they are looking at the guys

behaviour and saying why is it

appropriate for him to have a senior

role at Unicef?

Looking at the

ongoing Oxfam story, this time it is

he the deciding the cannot continue

to operate while they continue their

investigation.

This is a different

story about charities going back to

the way that Oxfam has not said that

some of its aid workers were

behaving badly towards beneficiaries

in Haiti. It emerged recently.

It

was sexual exploitation.

Yes. It is

Haiti correctly saying to Oxfam

you're not welcome here if that is

how you will behave.

They had to not

only apologise to their donors and

to MPs and to the department who

give them cash, but they said that

they have gone and made

representations of the Government of

Haiti and they have decided this is

the best course of action to take.

Let's move on to the Financial

Times. This is university lecturers

taking strike action because they

are concerned because of changes to

pension they will be losing out tens

of thousands of pounds a year, but

of course it means that students

will not get hot.

It's all happening

in the world of universities. This

is another issue about the vice

chancellors who are paid megabucks.

-- students will not get hot.

This

is a reform pushed by vice

chancellors, which perhaps wasn't

politically the greatest...

Students

are paying through the nose for a

student fees. They announced a

reform about fees, but it is an

issue.

Durham Newcastle and Kent

have said we need to find a

resolution about them. The head of

Newcastle said we think that a lot

of these people striking have got a

point and perhaps we need to rethink

this. It looks that there is room

for a new verse there, but there are

more strikes planned and plans to

extend action into June which would

be potentially over exams, so it is

quite serious.

The average vice

traveller is paid ten grand is up in

a year. Big-money even for the BBC.

-- Vice Chancellor is paid £240,000.

Some students are acting for a

refund on their tuition.

Why not? It

is a market. If you are planning

money. Why not? I think the

Government should encourage students

to get a refund from a university

that doesn't give them education. It

is a market. Get your money back.

There was some polling that came out

this afternoon about it and most

students said they are fully

supportive of it, they see that it

is quite an insecure job with people

on short-term contracts and I think

it takes quite a long time for that

to be a secure profession. Certainly

not a well-paid profession and

students have sympathy.

The Vice

Chancellor will eat it if they get

refunds on courses. -- hate it. But

like this is a misleading headline.

130,000 people going home.

The

highest level for a decade.

Yes, you

might think from that headline that

migration to the UK is going down,

but it's not. It actually has gone

up. Net migration for non-EU

countries went up by 40,000 over the

same period. Net migration is

roughly about 240,000.

That is about

Coventry. An extra commentary.

That

is 2.5 times over what the

Government would like to be when

they said that net migration should

be in the tens of thousands.

You

might have thought they might want

to say another Coventry has arrived

but instead they are reassuring them

they are going on.

This is about the

difference between EU and non-EU

migrants. There has always been the

option to stop non-EU migrants but

we haven't because the skills are

required.

I think this should be a

real cause for concern, the fact

that there are so many EU migrants

who have clearly decided that their

future doesn't lie in this country,

maybe they don't feel welcome in

this country, and they have skills

that we need, particularly in

hospitals. I think... I don't think

this is something we should be proud

of.

If they remain here, they can

get a British passport. It is a

shame they are going home. I have my

own views as well as the paper's

views.

I think it must be... It's

not just about your general rates to

say any place, is it, it's about do

you feel like this places the

welcoming place for you, is it a

home for you? You might be able to

have your rights, but perhaps people

feel this is fundamental. I think

it's not surprising that quite a few

people might.

Quite a lot of people

are still coming. To a lot of people

it so attractive. A lot of students

in particular. Paying huge fees to

universities. It's so circular. The

Huffington Post. Meghan Markle and

Prince Harry's suspicious substance

skier treated as hate crime. The

white powder about to be toxic,

thankfully it was harmless, but

still very chilling when it arrives.

Quite, and it shows that the happy

bubble around this couple before

they get married in spring which is

wonderful and they have chewed up

the papers in this grim February,

there are always threats to

high-profile individuals. It seems

it was a race hate crime, because

Meghan Markle is from a mixed race

background, is about is why they are

saying that.

It was a similar

package delivered to the House of

Commons.

It was delivered to the

Home Secretary, Amber Rudd. It

caused quite a kerfuffle dancers in

the corridor when a package arrived.

There was a lot of police around. --

kerfuffle downstairs. It is

incredibly worrying. It turned out

to be harmless.

We must let Chris

talk about this. We will never hear

the end of if we don't.

I do a

podcast. I interviewed Michael

Gove...

This is a ban on plastic

straws looming.

I said to him that

there is a concern to the BBC's

excellent programmer Blue Planet,

about the amount of plastic in the

ocean. He said watch this space. He

also told me he was a big fan of the

arteries and told me he preferred

Brian Aldridge. -- the archers.

There is a real momentum building

behind this idea of single use. 40

MPs have given up using plastic

relent. Michael Gove seems to view

this as somewhat of a personal

crusade. It's a great story and will

be interesting to see...

He is one

of the few ministers in Government

doing stuff. You may not agree with

him, you may not...

But what about

Brexit?

We are getting sovereignty

back of this country, what is going

to be different? Here is in example

of a good thing.

I am thinking about

buying an old school one might you

would have had in your cocktail

table.

Will you have a strength for

cocktails?

Yes, any time. We cannot

drink in here. Finally, where Ari?

Who are we looking at? I couldn't

work out which camera I was on. The

Daily Mirror. Children waiting for

transplants or having had

transplants urging MPs to vote in

favour of this idea of opting out of

being an ordained owner rather than

opting in.

This should be a really

crucial moments tomorrow when MPs

vote on matters and it's something

the Prime Minister in her speech

said she would support it and it is

quickly radical move meaning you

don't have to carry those organ

donor cards any more, you don't have

to take those boxes when you fill in

forms. It will be that you are

automatically opted in rather

than... You need to say when you

want to opt out.

Great idea. It will

go through tomorrow in the Commons,

causing panic at the mirror, because

Theresa May backed their campaign.

They hate it.

That is cognitive

dissonance. I just want to say

before we wrap up, my esteemed

colleague in the newsroom has sent

me a note about the population of

Coventry. It is 250,000, not

240,000. This is the kind of service

they get.

Tremendous resources at

the BBC.

That is it from us. You can

see all the front pages online.

Lovely to see you both, thank you

for coming in.